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  1. cm_kruger
    Funny thing is, I remember reading a bunch of technothrillers as a teenager but don't actually remember anything other than snippets of plot. There was one with a stealth fighter on the cover about a Shuttle carrying nuclear bombs that got stolen by Libyans. And one about a Soviet scientist defecting in Algeria (?) because the Soviet government didn't believe that space aliens were going to invade and refused to build bomb-pumped lasers. Though a while back I read a couple mystery novels about a Finnish secret investigator for the Tsar who is sent to Siberia but Stalin brings him back because he's incorruptible (what a mouthful), the first one is a pretty generic one about finding the remains of the Romanovs, whereas the second is a very inaccurate story about the creator of the T-34 being murdered. Koshkin makes no appearance at all.
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    https://web.archive.org/web/20130703020513/http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/a/racerg/itagaki-xbn-winter2002.html He also got all butthurt because after he left the studio the DOA team changed her to look like a adult and not "SET THE BREAST SIZE SLIDER TO 100."
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    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/yemen-step-famine-151204210940979.html Additionally it's causing issues in Somalia, which is unequipped to deal with the influx of both Somali refugees returning from Yemen, and Yemeni's fleeing their country. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34645877
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    More photos from the 737 pilot turned mercenary Mirage driver for the Libyan government. http://imgur.com/gallery/vp07e http://imgur.com/gallery/LxbUq
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    The actual reason they're not releasing that Dead or Alive game is because the series creator got really upset over nude mods for the one they released earlier in the year. I think there was even a statement from Koei before it came out that they wouldn't release any more DOA games in the west if modders didn't behave "morally" towards his "daughters."
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    Pump baby, pump. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-04/opec-unity-shattered-as-saudi-led-policy-leads-to-no-limits-ihs9xu51
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    "it's okay for Assad to carry out a large scale terror bombardment against the citizens of his country because Israeli terrorists set off some bombs in the 40s!" That's not really helping your argument. https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566329-us-preparing-airbase-in-northeast-syria-reports http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jets-carry-out-strikes-north-of-damascus-reports/
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    Actual communists have their first stealth fighter now.
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    Have any German papers run a headline similar to "Goering's Ghost Menaces Luftwaffe Readiness" yet? Not really. I'd say the Tornado ADV was a real dog of a fighter. It's a ground attack airframe that got shoehorned into being a interceptor because the British thought the air superiority F-111 was actually going to happen.
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    "The Soviet Union Turkey has a right to defend it's airspace and sovereignty against unchecked Western Russian imperialism." Erogdan is as much a dickhead as Putin and they both deserve each other. Additionally this has allowed the US to basically drop the "we like your airfield so we're not going to press the issue" over Turkey bombing Kurdish groups, and start proving actual meaningful aid to non-Iraqi Kurdish groups. But mainly I just find the constant revisionism and lying from the Russia boosters to be incredibly annoying. Apparently we've gotta give equal time to antivaxer quality claims about how the Syrian government isn't dropping oil drums full of explosives into residential areas, that rebels in Ukraine are whittling new-production T-72s out of stumps, that Montenegro (a country with no tanks, two frigates and four jet trainers) possibly joining NATO is part of a vast conspiracy to encircle Russia. Any claim by the Russian government or media is sacrosanct, anything that brings the purity and innocence of Russia (or allies such as Assad) into question is a lie fabricated by the west. It's a unsettling reversion to cold war stupidity, and basically makes it impossible to have honest conversation when people are constantly pushing false claims and conspiracy theories. And of course this provides fertile ground for other idiots who go and do stuff like the Polish conservative party opening a new investigation into Kaczynski flying into a hill. (and I'm sure that if the roles were reversed we'd be hearing about how Poland murdered a Russian politician, because Russian pilots could never fly into a hill. Or that ISIS oil going to Turkey is "absurd western propaganda and defamation of a Russian ally") But anyways. US special forces are now operating in Rojava. https://twitter.com/jackshahine/status/672208068143370240
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    The Falcon collection is on sale for $5 over the next 35 hours or so on GOG, because they've already started their holiday sale. https://www.gog.com/game/falcon_collection
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    The LAPD has been using a armored skid loader during the response to today's shooting/attack.
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    I'm saying that while they had set up guidelines for what frequencies would be used, it's looking like either the airplane wasn't equipped with the radios needed for them or the crew had turned off their radios/were ignoring them. Unless you're implying that they deliberately provoked the Turks in which case lol.
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    Urst canceled Read Poetry, reason: bullied by cave lacrosse team.
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    Will they run out of bombs again like in Libya?
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    That's what it's looking like. Insult me all you want but you haven't actually responded to my questions.
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    Peep the KA-50/52 at about 1 minute in.
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    Well there are currently Russian flagged cargo ships transiting past Istanbul and near Gallipoli. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:29/centery:41/zoom:10
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    So you're saying that it's either okay to not equip combat aircraft with the radios needed to transmit/receive on internationally agreed upon frequencies (frequencies already used to prevent things like this from happening between US-Russian forces, and had been already set up by the Russians and Turks) when operating in a area with a potentially belligerent state, or that the pilots were some real idiots who had turned off their radios and/or were ignoring the warnings? Show to me they had the capability to receive the warnings (which have been verified by third parties as being sent) and if so, then explain why they didn't act on them.
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    Russia not equipping it's aircraft with VHF/UHF radios, and then claiming that they never received any warnings after one gets shot down while violating another country's airspace, despite already having protocols for using Guard frequencies to prevent things like this from happening, is "irrelevant"?
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    So will Assad be cutting off his energy partnerships with ISIS? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2c6b5ca-9427-11e4-82c7-00144feabdc0.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/92f4e036-6b69-11e5-aca9-d87542bf8673.html
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    Vice already translated it. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/belgian-physicists-calculate-that-everyone-is-lying-about-the-downed-russian-jet?utm_source=vicenewsfb
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    Without knowing the frequencies I can't comment, but chances are they wouldn't have been able to receive those frequencies without the same VHF/UHF equipment. Additionally the US and Russia have already agreed to use guard frequencies for initial contact before moving to other frequencies. I have a feeling that the "special frequencies" that Turkey and Russia agreed on followed similar practices. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Dangerous_Military_Activities_Agreement http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2013/07/russian-us-procedures-for-prevention-of.html
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    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/11/25/-I-knew-it-was-going-to-happen-MEA-pilot-recalls-downing-of-Russian-jet.html
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